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IP Fabric

IP Fabric is a network management system used to discover, verify, visualize and document large scale networks.

Parameters

  1. IP Fabric Domain (required) - The hostname or IP address of the IP Fabric server that Axonius can communicate with via the Required Ports. For example: https://ipfabric.axonius.lan.
  2. User Name and Password (optional, preferred option) - The credentials for a user account that has the Required Permissions to fetch assets. Use either User Name and Password or API Key. Refer to API Keys for information on obtaining the API Key.
  3. API Key - An API Key associated with a user account that has the Required Permissions to fetch assets. Use either API Key or User Name and Password.
  4. API Version (optional) - Select the version of the IP Fabric API.
  5. Verify SSL - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
  6. HTTPS Proxy (optional) - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.

To learn more about common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.

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Advanced Settings

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Note

Advanced settings can either apply to all connections for this adapter, or to a specific connection. Refer to Advanced Configuration for Adapters.

  1. Fetch assets from hosts table - Select this option to fetch assets from the hosts table.
  2. Ignore assets without hostname - Select this option to not fetch devices if they do not have a hostname.
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Note

To learn more about Adapter Configuration tab advanced settings, see Adapter Advanced Settings.

Ignore assets without hostname - Select this option to not fetch devices if they do not have a hostname

APIs

Axonius uses IP Fabric API.

Required Ports

Axonius must be able to communicate with the value supplied in IP Fabric Domain via the following ports:

  • 443 (HTTPS)

Required Permissions

The value supplied in User Name must have read access to devices. Every user has their granted scope that allows them to access a different part of the IP Fabric application. The scope required is 'read' that provides access to read-only data.

For more details, see IP Fabric API - Authorization.

Updated about 8 hours ago